108 E '5 * I E* Leontyne Price 8c James Galway LEONTYNE PRICE GOD BLESS AMERICA , "fiiJ<>i" ,; .. .:::. .::.:: . .--=l: : .. . . -:= ::::::: '-" <-,.i' ';.:., :! " ':"::';;J+"," ) ltI: I ^.-^ ....: . .: .. -v-::::::::.:. ...:." ""- IV f. .. t.. . ".- :-.-:-....-: : ;it.. ,- ..... ROil ReI) eAt. God Bless America o ARL1-4528 Pernaps no other Amencan singer on the operatic stage today is more closely associated with the ideas of the American Dream than Leontyne Price. GOD BLESS AMERICA features the hymns, folk songs and scenes of Americana that comprise the rich musical heritage of our land Thrill to Leontyne Price's glorious vOIce raised in a love song to our great nation - "America, The Beautiful," 'Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," "B ttle Hymn of the Republic" "Gold Bless America" and others. $8.98 Also available as a Red Seal digital audiophile pressing C ARC1-4221 511.98 JAMES GALWAY . ,":.' "0 . . ..":: '. '". . .... ."0. . . . "0 ..:....:.:...: .. ,0. :.:.):. :"... .. 1%\ ir. 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N Y. State -W residents add applicable tax .". _ Minimum Foreign Order $20 + 25% matling charges AT ALL KING KAROL STORES 126 West 42nd Street 1500 Broadway -1521 Third Ave. over Spain's pending admission to the European Economic Community, might exact considerable Spanish con- cessions over Gibraltar as the price of its support. Nor did the flurry of sport- ing nationalism that came inevitably with the M undial help matters. . T HERE must be various ways of reducing twenty-four teams to two, but the way that FIF A had chosen, in the published draw for the final rounds, had us all in a state of statisti- cal puzzlement. The qualifying teams had been divided into six groups of four. Each team played the others in its group once, and then the two teams from each group with the most points advanced to the second phase, forming four groups of three. The first group of four-Italy, Poland, Peru, and Cameroon-played one another in Galicia, in cool weather. The second four- West Germany, Algeria, Chile, and Austria-held their games in Oviedo and Gijón, in the north. The third group-Belgium, Argentina, Hungary, El Salvador-were on the east coast, at Alicante and Elche. En- gland, France, Czechoslovakia, and Kuwait, the fourth group, took one another on in Bilbao and Valladolid. The fifth group, on which Spanish eyes were riveted) played off in V alen- cia and Zaragoza: Spain, Honduras, Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland. And the sixth group, perhaps the most ex- otic in its confrontations, consisting of Brazil, the Soviet Union, Scotland, and New Zealand, faced off in Seville and Malaga, where high temperatures were already setting records. Once the whirl of games began, it was wise to have handy the draw, a map of Spain, an ample pad, and a pencil, for keep- ing abreast of the fortunes of twenty- four teams at once took a good bit of haruspication. . W HILE FIF A masterminds the operational plan for the World Cup, the responsibility for organizing it and preparing it falls to the host country. Consequently, Spain's Or- ganizing Committee, set up by royal decree, contracted out the various functions. In spite of the high outlay, the possible returns-from attendance and, especially, from the sale of televi- sion rights throughout the world-led the country to expect to profit from the venture. Before a ball had been kicked, however, some of the organizers were being pilloried in the Spanish press, which has a sharp eye for misman- agement, and which continued to come up with embarrassing detail all through the competition. The com- mercial exploitation of the M undial had been contracted out to various European organizations, and the M undial, far from being confined to football, had become a great octopus of events, embracing a cultural Mun- dial, with concerts, exhibitions, dis- plays, a jazz M undial, and various other forms of spectacle, all of them bearing what were referred to as the ('official graphic symbols" of the event: a pervasive logo of a football trailing behind it a comet tail in the colors of the Spanish flag, its own escutcheon, and the tediously inevitable mascot- in this case, a small inflated orange in football gear called N aranjito, the source of much public derision. The only grace came in the form of the official poster-by Joan Miró, Spain's greatest living celebrator. There was even a Mundial Hymn, launched by Placido Domingo and dinned into our ears game after game. The Spaniards have an infallible nose for what they call the cursi-an adjective implying bad taste, cheapness, and pretentious- ness mixed-and the Mundial was pretty clogged with it, and with the commercialism that is attendant on sporting occasions of that size and does not sit easily side by side with cere- mony. . O N the back wall of the little pen- sión in our village, hanging un- der a clock that has not ticked in my presence, hangs a photograph of a football team, fairly obviously yellow- ing, for the team is in white uniforms -jerseys, shorts, stockings. It is a photograph of the Real Madrid club team of 1960, which had just won the European Cup, played for by each country's championship club, for the fifth successive time, and which is in- voked by many sages of the game as perhaps the most accomplished team to have taken the field in the modern era, when the game began to sharpen and refine itself. I can name that team from memory, for I lived that year in Madrid, not ten minutes' walk from its stadium, and often used to watch not only its games but their training sessions. The team probably looks a bit old-fashioned now-sporting photo- graphs, like glamorous photographs of women, lose lustre quite quickly-but films of its most memorable games are studied by teams of the moment What